Cytanet-topups extremely short expiration-date?

[Veronica]

It is definitely 12 months, always has been so there must be something wrong with Niklas' phone.

[Miss Daisy]

I have to agree that something is wrong, it should be 12 months. I have been topping off with small amounts - 10 Euro and it always gives me 12 more months. I have been doing this for 3 years. My last top off was in January and it was extended 12 months.

You should visit the Cyta shop as suggested. Good luck.

I went to Cyta but unfortunately I found that expiration is indeed only 15 days (2 weeks) for Internet Pay as you go (he told me it was normal and showed me on the contract-paper as well), this I find to be extremely limiting as it defeats the whole purpose of "pay as you go" as it means that my internet usage is nearly irrelevant if I need to top it up every 2 weeks just to keep it validated (i.e. it's pretty much the same as a pay-monthly contract) and I've not noticed this limitation in any other country.

As someone on previous page pointed out I can get slightly better expiration per euro if I buy the €35 top-up since it has 120 days validation (topping up €5 euro 7 times i.e. €35 would only be 105 so it's slightly more days for the price), but it's still a pretty bad deal, but oh well I think I'm going to do that since I only have a few more months in Cyprus.

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However as for PHONE pay as you go, it is apparently 12 months (like you guys said) IF I top it up once, in my case I was still using the €5 included when I bought the sim-card (and that apparently only works 2 months) as I only use this for emergencies (good thing I noticed it wasn't working, would suck to be locked out of the apartment and then find out your phone isn't working),
so when it comes to the phone even tho I still have lots of credit on it I can simply top it up anyway since after topping up it >should< work for the normal 12 months period.

Cheers all.

[zin]

NiklasB what's Internet pay as you go vs Phone pay as you go ? As in topping up online vs topping up using a scratch card?

I may be using the wrong name here, I mean a sim-card for browsing the internet through 3g with (i.e. most people use them with the USB-dongles but you can also use them in your cellphone).

[theresoon]

Originally Posted by NiklasB

I went to Cyta but unfortunately I found that expiration is indeed only 15 days (2 weeks) for Internet Pay as you go (he told me it was normal and showed me on the contract-paper as well), this I find to be extremely limiting as it defeats the whole purpose of "pay as you go" as it means that my internet usage is nearly irrelevant if I need to top it up every 2 weeks just to keep it validated (i.e. it's pretty much the same as a pay-monthly contract) and I've not noticed this limitation in any other country.

As someone on previous page pointed out I can get slightly better expiration per euro if I buy the €35 top-up since it has 120 days validation (topping up €5 euro 7 times i.e. €35 would only be 105 so it's slightly more days for the price), but it's still a pretty bad deal, but oh well I think I'm going to do that since I only have a few more months in Cyprus.

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However as for PHONE pay as you go, it is apparently 12 months (like you guys said) IF I top it up once, in my case I was still using the €5 included when I bought the sim-card (and that apparently only works 2 months) as I only use this for emergencies (good thing I noticed it wasn't working, would suck to be locked out of the apartment and then find out your phone isn't working),
so when it comes to the phone even tho I still have lots of credit on it I can simply top it up anyway since after topping up it >should< work for the normal 12 months period.

Cheers all.

sorry, I thought you were talking about phone (not realized internet service)

[Toxan]

You can also visit wifi places and have free endless internet too

theresoon: I WAS talking phone I have 1 simcard for phonecalling and 1 for internet (both from cytanet), but as it turned out they had both expired for different reasons.

I will topup my phone today and hopefull have atleast that one work for the next 12 months again

Toxan: Yes I go about once a week to to a wifi-pub for bandwidth-heavy tasks, but my work also requires that whenever I'm stuck on a technical problem that I can instantly get in touch with a college or surf the net for the solution, and that's what I use my 3g-itnernet for.

[zin]

Niklas, ah! a SIM with a data package.

How about using something like CityCell? City Cell WiFi hot spot locations around Cyprus

30 euros per month for long-term: City Cell WiFi hot spot locations around Cyprus

Thanks for the advice, but there's no signal strong enough where I live (and my laptops battery is dead so I can't go far outside)